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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

TO LET FURNISHED.

From Mid-April, 1916.

NRAIGMIN BAST, 100, PEAK. Moderate

t. Year or longer.

Apply

T.K. DEALY,

Craigmin East, or

Queen's College. Hongkong, 28th February, 1916. (340

CANTON MEDICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

onlled MEETING of the CANTON MEDICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY will be held in Canten, on WEDNESDAY, June 21st, 1916, to vote upon the revision of The Constitution and Bylaws of the Society proposed at the Annual Meeting, held Febr.

3rd, 1916

J. OSCAR THOMSON, Secretary, Hongkong, 38th February, 1918.

PONIESI

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INTIMATIONS

SAN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25m. 1916.

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

ANUAL SHOW af FLOWERS and. VEGETABLES to be held in the BOTANG GARDENS Į

FRIDAY, 3rd March, 2 to 6.30 г.x. Admission m $1.00 Lady May will present the Prizes at-4 PM.

SATURDAY, 4th March,

10,30 to a г..Admission 50 Cents. 3 to 6.30 P.M.Admission 20. Centa. The Band of the 74th Punjabis will play on both days.

Tea will be obtainable on the Ground.

The Committee hope that during the dis tribution of Special or Presented Prizes winners will show courtesy by being present to receive them.

A. NICOL, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 25th February, 1918.

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PONIES!! PONIES!! BLUE CROSS

PUBLIC ROUP.

Tous by Public Roup,

HE Undersigned have received instruc

ON WEDNESDAY,

Who at March, 1916, at 31.M., at the Fountain, opposite the City Hall,

A LARGE NUMBER OF

WELL-KNOWN RACE PONIES. (Full Particulars from Catalogue.) TERME-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 28th February, 1918.

G.

TENDERS.

CEALED TENDERS

(262

QT invited for UPHOLSTERY, DYEING, DRY-CLBANING WORE and MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES for H.M. Naval Establishments for One Year from the 1st April next. -

Tenders will be received at the car Admiral's Office until Nooy on FRIDAY, 10th March, 1916.

Forma of Tender may be obtained on application to the Naval Store Officer, HMM. Nayal Yard.

The right is reserved of rejecting all or any Tenders and of accepting any portion of a Tender.

G. L. PLATT, Naval Store Officer. Hongkong, 28th February, 1018. (243

G.

R.

TENDERS.

from the 1st April, 1918,

FUND.

Стой

PUBLIC COMPANIES

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NEW SHARES AND DEBENTURES.

REMINDER TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NEW SHARES. TUESDAY, tie 29TH FEBRUART, is the LAST DAY for:

(1) Payment for accepted sharoa

(8) Acceptance and payment of shares by

absent shareholders. After that data shares accepted and not paid for will be liable to forfeiture and the right to accept unaccepted shares will lapse... DEBENTURES

TUESDAY, the 29r FEBRUARY, is the LAST DAY for receiving applications for Dobentures.

B. M. DYER,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 25th February, 1916.

1399

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED.

CHARE CERTIFICATE No. 2965, dated

6th May, 1909, of Thirty Shares numbered 8118to 8139 inclusive and 18592/18096 inclusive, standing in the Register in the name of De.. JOSEPH WHITTLESEY NOBLE, having

HORSES IN WAR TIME. been LOST, Notice is hereby given that unless

با

THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUR

PRESENTS

THE ANGEL IN

THE HOUSE,”

A COMEDY IN 3. Acrs,

BY B. MACDONALD HASTINGS

AND

EDEN PHILLPOTTS,

Last Year's Great London Success.

ON SATURDAY, 4TH MARCH, ?

AND MONDAY, 8TH MARCH,AT 6.30 г.m.

February 26th, at Ax

BOOKING at MOUTRIE'S from FRIDAY,

PRICES: $4, $3 AND $2. BLUE CROSS FUND. Hongkong, 15th February, 1918.

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the said certificate be produced at the Office of the Company, 20, Des Vaux Road, Central, Hongkong, on or before the 10th day of March, 1910, Now Certificate for the said Shares will be issued and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as nuli and void.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,

General Moungers. Hongkong, ooh February, 1918. (254

THE HONGKONG STEAM LAUNCH TUG AND LIGHTER CO., LTD.

LOST.

APPLICATION has been made to this

Company to issue Duplicate Certificate of 30 Shares in this Company in the name of YUEN CHEONG or other Certificate or Certificates in lieu thereof Statement that the Original Certificate 39, Thirty Shares numbered 7799/7768 dated 16th August, 1910, has been LOST or DESTROYED; and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if within 30 days from the date hereof no claim or representation in respect of such Original Certificate is made to the Company, the Undersigned will then proceed to "deal" with such application for duplicate.

For the HONGKONG STEAM LAVNOH TUG AND LIGHTER Co., LTD., GORDON & Co.

General Managers. Hongkong, 10th February, 1016TM

-L259

UNION INSURANCE: ·SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.

NOTICE.

INTIMATION

WATSON'S

THE CERTIFICATE No. 3755 for Five

FINEST OLD

BROWN

the special tax of fifty per cent, lovied

The name of Mr. G. W. MoClintock has

on exons profits is of small moment when been added to the Register of Chomiste innd. such gigantic sums are earned. The Druggists,

position is due to the ordinary working. The following subcriptions to the of the law of supply and domand in Prince of Wales' Fund see announced:-- times of abnormal pressure, and, although British residoute in Amoy, $589; British the failure of the Government to recognise residents in Chefoo (further contribu- the seriousness of the situation during the tions), £200.

| earlier stages of the war, combined with the lack of proper organisation and con- trol, led to the just complaint that our shipping was often extravagantly and wastefully used, there is little hope even BRANDY now, after some reforms have been

E

QUALITY:

Brown Brandy

ار است در ایران با ایده ها را

en & Com

25 YEARS IN WOOD.

Allen

Mrs. Elizabeth Matheson, of

property. She bequeathed £2,000 to the House, Kensington, Iaft, £34,363 gromm

Foreign Mission work in China. Presbyterian Church of England for

A Petrograd telegram states that the newspapers publish a report according to which, in return for the visit of the Grand Duku George of Bussia to Japan, Japanese Prince will visit Russia and England in April on AK important. political mission,

The King has granted Dr. Dunosa Main, of Hangchow, authority to wear? the insignia of the fourth class of the Order of the Excellent Crop, conferred

upoa kim by the President of the Republic of China in recognition of valuable ser viees rendered to the Chiwego.

introduced, that rates will be reduced to any very appreciable extent. It has been suggested that the Government should take over the control of the whole of our mercantile marine, but, as Mr. RUNDIMAN announced in the House of Commons re cently, all the experts have come to the conclusion that this particular remedy would only aggravate the shortage of ton- nage and make things worse, We must rest content, therefore, with the assuranco that the Admiralty fully realise the neces sity for the strictest economy in the em- ployment of tonnage, with the facilities given to builders to complete the ships on their stocks. and with the steps now. being taken to on-ordinate more closely the demands of tonnage for military and been

the British Red Cross naval purposes and for munitions and food Hospital at Alexandria (the result of one for ourselves and our Allies. By these month's work):-22 peir socks, 1 pairs. measures some of the tension may be mittens, I shirt, 8 bed sheets, 63 triangular relieved. It is, of course, the general ris bandages, 58 manytailed bandages, and 39 in freights which has led to the great

dozen sponges, increase in the price of kerosene, of which one of our correspondents complained. Many of the tank steamers owned by the oil companies have been requisitioned is at present delay ou relegrams exchanged by the Government as rapecially suitable with Europe and beyond,

WATSON

& CO., LTD.,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG.

(18

CONSULAR REGISTRATION OF

AMERICAN CITIZENS.

PENDERS are invited for the Supply of the Representatives of American in- THE attention of American Citizens and TENDROUS AND LAQUEz for Admiralty stitutions concerns is called to the fact Conting for a period of 12 months certain that the Department of State's regulations Shares, $100 paid up, numbered 3845/50

that all American Citizens, Dentemplate Forme for Tondering can be obtained on institutions, and corporations shall be standing in the Register in the name of application to the Naval Stare Officer, H.M. registered ANNUALLY with the Consul in declared, LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY SUTTON-At Canton on the 24th instant,

EUSTACE ALBAN KENYON, having been Kaval Yard, Hongkong, and Tenders should whose district they live or operate. The he lodged in this Rear Admiral's Office not object of this registration is to facilitate the GIVEN that unless the said Certificate is Inter than Noon on the 10th March, 1916.

protection of American citizens, institutions, produced to the Society on or before the 18th May, 1916, A NEW CERTIFICATE for the and corporations on the part of the agents may shares will be issued, and the old of the Government.

Certificate will thereafter be held by the Society as null and void.

A deposit of One Hundred Dollars will be required from persons Tendering, and will be returned in the event of non-acceptanos of the Tendor.

G. L. PLATT, Naval Store Officer. H.M. Naval Yari,

Hongkong, 28th February, 1916 [244

TENDERS.

TTORER, TIMBER MATERIALS, and SPARS ENDERS are invited for the Supply of

to H.M. Naval Yard for one year from 1st April next

Forms of Tender with full particulars may be obtained on application to the Naval Store Officer.

Tenders must reach H.M. Dookyard not Eater than 9th March next.

G. L. PLATT Naval Store Officer. M. M. Dockyard,

Hongkong, 24th February, 1916. [321

| Those who knowing the regulations, novertheless fail to register, and maintain such registration may reasonably be presumed not to be entitled to register and not to be entitled to the American Government's .protection.

American citizen, institutions,and concerns located in Hongkong are expected to register at the Consulate General in Hongkong and to maintain such registration without notice from this offies.

GEORGE E ANDERSON, Consul General. Hongkong, 22nd February, 1916.

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EIGHT PER CENT, MILITARY LOAN.

SECOND DRAWING ON FEBRUARY 20TH,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Drawing for Repayment of the Tight For Cent. Military Loan Bonds will take place in Peking on February 20th, on which occasion 81,150,000, worth of Bonds will be drawn for repayment. When the drawing is over, the numbers of drawn bonds will be published in the Government Gazette.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE. Canton, 23rd February, 1918. [330

SITUATION · VACANT.

1OOD Salary and Prospects for Experi-

BncedSTENOGRAPHER and TYPIST, THE

General Office Work.

Apply→→

"J. R. 3.," Clare of" Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 28th February, 1016.

WANTED.

www.

NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE "REPUBLIC OF CHINA

(1914), - .....

SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE OF $8,000,000.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

C. MONTAGUE EDE, Gerioral Manager. Hongkong, 19th February, 1916. 30B

3

BIRTH.

to Mr. and Mrs. H. BurrON, a son.

[339 MARRIAGE. WAILES-FAIRIES HALL BRUTTON-At Askham, on January 21st, W, F. WAILES-FAIRBAIHN

MARGARETTA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hali Brut ton, of Hongkong.

GODDARY.

On

to

Charitab

DEATHS

Haimun," --- At

Folkestone, on January 15th, erick Day Goddard, late Marine Burveyor, Hongkong, aged 62. GREGORY.-At 43. Hilperton-road, Trow-

Wilts, bridge,

21st, January WILLIAM GEGORY, late E.B.M. Consul, Ichang, aged 36. LAY.At Bascombe on January 18th, Emily, wife of W. THURLOY LAT, late A loving to leave the Colony should apply M2Os gorest Lodge, Boscombe, on

Commissioner of Chinese Customs January 19th, Frederick Major, late of Hankow.

B.

NOTION.

NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asintie or Indian

le writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,

at Toast 48 hours before the Intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, height and reapstion of the applicant, and stalling the of the train by which the applicant wishes to name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL POLICE STATION between the hours of 9 to 1 P.M. kad 3 PM to 4 PM, daily.

Hongkong, 10th July, 1915.

AMATOYA SHIRT

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$16,000,000 AND

AND

THE

NATIONAL LOAN FOURTH YEAR OF

Trade

OF

THE

THE

REPUBLIC -OF CHINA

(1916),

TUROPEAN SHOP, in good centre. FORD rental 5200 to do

if necessary.

NEWLY,

Apply --

Care of "Daily Press" Office. Hongkong, 26th February, 1916.

LOST.

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$24,000,000.

UBSCRIBERS to the above TWO LOANS are hereby notified that the Interest PURE WHITE BULL TERRIER Instalments for the n'onth of February, each amounting to Dollars One Hundred and DOG auswering to the name of Twenty Thousand (8120,000) 8240,000 in all "Billy."—Anyone anding same and re- turning it to M. 8. NORTHCOTE,,have been duly received by the Undersigned

and brought to Loan Service Account. Bowen Boad, will be rewarded,

FA AGLEN Hongkong, 25th February, 1918. [338

Inspector General of Customs, and Vice-Chairman of the Bureau of

National Loans. Inspectorate General of Customs, Peking, 16th February 1916

NOTICE.

WE HAVE This Day authorised Mn.

WFRANK EWART JOSELAND to Siga the name of our Firma in Canton

·DONNELLY & WHYTE Hongkong, 25th February, 1916. [326

NOTICE.

EL Persons having Claims against Mr. GUSTAY ENGEL, of MESSES FM. MEYERINE & Co., are requested to file same. with the Liquidators before 15th March, 1916,

ALEK. ROSS & Co. Tiquid stors. Hongkong, 9th February 914

ON SALE

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FONGKONG HANSAND REPORT

HOthe

Bu

MEETINGS

COUNCIL, Lon

thi

LEGISLATIVE Session 1915

Revised by THE ME 125,

PRION

⚫ (25)

DAILY PRESS Owaton, Hongkong, 25th February, 1916.

Mark

YOKOHAMA.

REPRESENTATIVE :"

77

HONGKONG OPTION: 10A, DES VOUX BOLD, LONDON OFFICE 181, Frane Star, E.O.

The Daily Press.

Horokoro 28ru FinkUARY, 1916 -

The following articles made by the British ladies at Canton have recently

Bent

to

The Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Co., Hongkong, announce that, owing to interruptions of cables there

Also, that

̈"" deferred” talegrams to Amerion (which have to pass vid Europa) are again allowed to pass the Atlantic cables, and can there fore again be accopted,

for abort-distance transporte and the difference between the cost of keroseno now and the cost some few months back is simply reflection of the sudden rise in freights between America and the Far East. The suggestion that all would be In the ordinary course the contract with well if the shipping companies were to the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company sharo some of their excess profits, with their for the conveyance of the weekly mails to employée iz illogical and absurb. Thore and from the East. would have expired et

is no reason why a shipping clock should the end of January, but as it is impose bie

receive extra remuneration because a for, the authorities to give close attention combination of unfortunate circumstances to the terms of a fresh contract in present. is making the public pay so much more sircumstances the existing arrangements.. for ordinary commodities, when a clerk have been extruded into next year. in any other commercial house continues

The Shanghai Amateur Billiard Cham- to receive the same salary as hitherto,pionship has been won at the Country Club If the proposal had been that the Govern by Mr. C. W. Porter, who was the Chem. ment should participate a little more freely in the onhanced prosperity of ship-pion in 1814. His score was 1,000, as com- pared with 734 obtained by his opponent, ping groups it might, perhaps have Capt. E. J. M. Barrett, the runner-up in deserved some support.

The best breaks in the cost of living in Hongkong, however, is last year's contest. not entirely explained by the rise in ocean match were Mr. Portor, 48, 45, 35 and freights. A sharp distinction must be drawn 29; Capt. Barrett, 54, 50, 45, 37 and 32. in this connection between what may be called local products and imported goods, and we certainly see no reason why, for example, the price of meat should remain at its present high level. At the outbreak

The ingreased

The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Mr. Cecil William Davidge, teacher in the Kobe Higher Commercial School. His Majesty's Reya! Licence and Authority to wear the Insignia of the

of hostilities a Committee was formed to Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising fix the maximum prices of various com-Sun; which decoration has been conferred modities and an official list of prices was upon him by His Majesty the Emperor of. published. It seems pertinent to ask how Japan in recognition of valuable services. often this list has been revised. The whoje

The Post Office authorities have issued a sale price of meat is lower now than before the war, but so far the reduction has notification to the effect that arrange

been made whereby not benefitted the consumer. The explana- ments have now tion of this may be that traders are taking residents who have spare books and. advantage of the officia quotations. It magazines can have them forwarded is a matter to which the Committee would to our soldiers on active service, free do well to give their immediate attention, of charge. All that is necessary is to make; for while in this Colony we may con. up a package labelled, "Literature for gratulato ourselves upon escaping so light Troops, Egypt," hand the package over the ly from the effects of the war, there is no Post Office counter, and the authoritie, will merit in submitting to unnecessary hard do the rest. There must be many Hong- ahips and exactions.

yong residents who would like to takə adə vantage of this easy method of doing something for the men who are fighting our battica,

The usual sale of ponies that follows upon the annual races is advertised to take place on Wednesday at the Fountain opposite Ching tex receives but scant attention the City Hall.

in the annual review of trade in 1915 in

year 1910-1917.

A Gazette notification orders that the The Times. In the comparative returns. existing valuation of the tenements in the for 1913-15 of the various crops which Colony shall be wholly adopted for the chiefly concern the British consumer we are told: China is not included be cause she is an immeasurable item, but our imports clearly prove she is in no Wise behind in the remarkable advances shown,"

As a matter of fact, the United.. Kingdom imported in 1915 21:000,000lbs. more than 1913, and 16,500,000lbs. over 1014. The increase from all sources for the year is $1,000,000 lbs., and the tots) is

THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. FOR some time past, there has been undercurrent of discontent in the Colony owing to the high cost of living, and recently this feeling has found expression in our correspondence columns. There is ad doubt that the restrictions imposed dur ing war-time, the wholesale requisition- YAMATOYA SHIRT Cooling of ships to meet the demands of the military situation, the serious reduction

Mr. N. E. Cornish, M.I.CE., formerly in the ranks of labour, and a hundred and manager for Messrs. Jardine, Mathasoa one other factors all conduce to force upt Co., Peking, has been appointed General prices. Among all these contributory Manager of the first National Filling Fee. causes, however, the most important is tory at Leeds, one of the Government muni. undoubtedly the unprecedented rise in tions factories ocean freights. In some quarters there is an unjustifiable tendency to hold the ship- owners directly responsible for this. Ship- owners are business men and they natural. by ran their skips, when acting independ ently, to make money, and not solely from altruistic and patriotic motives. That they are making enormous profits is obvious. One writer, indeed, calculates that on some of

The General Officer Commanding has ex Walter) Medhurst in 185. After älling the principal trade routes they are making

the appointments of assistent et Foochow aprofit of 157/- a ton, or thirty-nine times pressed his intention of being prosent at the Swator, and Tamsui, be becanis Vice

entertainment for the Troops which has Consal at the latter port in 1868, and was

transferred to Canton in acting-Consul at Taiwan (afterwards Tainan) in 1872, and promoted to Consul

K. TAKAHASHI, Braiding at HONGKONG HOTEL. ALL OEDERS PERSONALLY ATTENDED TO.

Our Shirts are Sold by "

NAKAZAWA-SHOTEN,

Hongkong, 24th February, 1916.

7 D'AQUILAE STREET.

ON SALE.

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A TABER OF THE RATES OF EXCHANGE AT BOMBAY For Demand Drafts on London on the day of or preceding the departure of the English Mails; also Table of the Yearly Approximate Average

for 38 yearO, FROM 1874 TO 1909,

28 much as the normal peace-time profit

Owners of property are informed in the bezelte that notice-of-ang-appeals against the adoption of the existing valuation for the assessment year 1913-1917 should be bodged with the Registrar of the Supreme Court within twenty-one days from Febru- sry 25th

of 4/-a ton. Where a shipowner previously been arranged to be given in the Seamen's made a profit at the rate of £120,000 per Institute by the Lyemus Entertainment annum, therefore, he is to-day by this Club on Wednesday next, commencing at On Sale at the DAILY PERSS Office or comparison making profits at the rate of 8.15-p.m. The entertainment will be open

£4,700,000 per annum. As is pointed out, to all, Local Bookendors.

PRICE ....... 19 CABE,

Bo easy

record" in imports, to which every producing country contributes its share

The death occurred at Trowbridge Wilte, on January 21st, of Mr. War Gregory, formerly of the British Consular Bervice in China, st the advanced age of 86 years. Mr. Gregory joined the service

& supernumerary interpreter in 1854. being employed in what was then known as the Superintendency, and proceeding to Fomhow with Mr. (afterwards Sir

1871

He was

at Swatow in 1873, He was for many Tchang in 1888. He retired on a pession yearn at Swatow, and was transferred to Ja:1800.